affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature
Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender
Modern Arabic literature, film, media, rhetoric and politics
19th & 20th century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, aesthetics
Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history
transnational sexualities; race and immigration; human rights; feminist and queer theory; media and cultural studies; disability studies
Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing